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Definition of Byway
1. Noun. A side road little traveled (as in the countryside).
Definition of Byway
1. n. A secluded, private, or obscure way; a path or road aside from the main one.
Definition of Byway
1. Noun. a road that is not frequently travelled ¹
2. Noun. (context: by extension) an unpopular or arcane field of study ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Byway
1. a side road [n -WAYS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Byway
Literary usage of Byway
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sixty Years of an Agitator's Life by George Jacob Holyoake (1906)
"byway TRAGEDIES. (1837.) SOMETIMES a man may engage in actual tragedies, under
a political despotism for instance, there being apparently to him no other ..."
2. Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America by Kira Gale (2006)
"... NATIVE AMERICAN SCENIC byway .. .112-11 I 16 D Lewis and Clark Information
Center I-90 Rest Area 17 D Akta Lakota Museum and Cultural Center, ..."
3. Highways and Byways in Shakespeare's Country by William Holden Hutton (1914)
"CHAPTER XVII A byway TO HATTON THERE is a pleasant way from Bearley, or, rather,
from the road which leads from Stratford to Henley, if you turn to the ..."
4. A Practical and Elementary Abridgment of the Cases Argued and Determined in by Elisha Hammond, Charles Petersdorff (1831)
"... and so defeat the could not object of the devisor; consequently the legal
estate, byway of use executed exhaust, Uie ¡n fcc-simple vested in the ..."
5. The American and English Encyclopedia of Law by John Houston Merrill, Charles Frederic Williams, Thomas Johnson Michie, David Shephard Garland (1892)
"... to draw the proper conclusion in a general verdict.1 Accordingly it has been
held that counsel has the right, byway St. 286; Lott г: State, 18 Tex. ..."
6. Highways and Byways in Surrey by Eric Parker (1908)
"He kept them, but he had to amend his plea into something a little less A Reigate
byway. Swaggering. Of Reigate Castle not a stone remains. ..."
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